Jordan T. Garcia is the Program Director for the American Friends Service Committee's Colorado Immigrant Rights Program. He is in his 17th year with AFSC and facilitates a dynamic group of leaders, Coloradans for Immigrant Rights. Jordan has served as the chair of the board of directors for the Colorado Anti-Violence Program (later called Survivors Organizing for Liberation) which worked to end violence within and against the LGBTQ community, and he was a co founder of the Luz Reproductive Justice Think Tank. He has also served on the board of directors for the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training and the social justice foundation the Chinook Fund. Jordan co-founded and operated the Underground Syringe Exchange Denver and is a national Nonviolent Direct Action trainer for the Ruckus Society, the Indigenous People’s Power Project and Green Peace USA.

Jordan advocates for change using a community wide anti-oppression lens to do vision-based leadership development in our movements for justice. He believes deeply in using both Popular Education and Theater of the Oppressed in his work.

Jordan was born in San Antonio, TX, grew up in Kansas City, KS and moved to Colorado in 1998. He graduated from Colorado College in 2002 with a B.A. in International Political Economy with an emphasis on Urban Studies. Jordan is a sensitive Cancer and hopes to one day become a better bee farmer.